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PEOPLE Vs. Felix Padilla

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SGT. FELIX PADILLA, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 75508 | 1994-06-10

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

M U R D E R is abhorrent; it becomes even more when the perpetrators are men in uniform, in active service, sworn to maintain the peace, protect the body politic and uphold the rule of law. This case may yet serve as a grim reminder, a foreboding, of the current state of affairs in the country ---- policemen, military officers, agents of the law, garbed in filthy outfit, drinking inordinately in public places, flaunting their arms as symbols of their authority, rebuking, beating, maiming, killing one another without rhyme or reason, hitting innocent bystanders in the crossfires, a sheer antithesis of...